I’ve seen a lot of ice cube paintings out there, where you color some ice cubes with some food coloring. It often gives a watercolor effect, often very pastel.

For this art project, I was looking for a something a little more… vibrant!

So we got artsy with some frozen paint!

How to make the frozen paint cubes:

Instead of just coloring ice cubes, we froze entire cubes of paint, I used Crayola washable paints (affiliate link), its our fave, with just a dash of water to top it off.

I stuck with our favorite combination of colors: blue and yellow. They make Henry’s favorite. Green.

When I topped off the paint with water, the colors kind of combined in the ice cube tray, but they were only green on top, underneath was still yellow or blue. (Looking back, I only needed to freeze about 3 cubes of paint, we have 9 more in the freezer waiting for another hot paint day!)

I stuck the paint in the freezer for about 20 minutes and then added the craft sticks. (I used these craft sticks (affiliate link) because that’s what I had on hand.) I’m not quite sure how long they took to freeze, we stuck them in the freezer in the morning, and they were ready after nap (around 4pm).

Hot summer day art project for kids: Sun needed!

To start painting, you just pop them out of the container like you would a regular ice cube and let the heat of the sun do its work! The cube is your paintbrush!

(Don’t forget to slather sunscreen on the kids before heading out to do this art project!)

It took a little bit to get going, but once the heat got the paint cubes melting, it melted on the canvas so brilliantly! Very vibrant!

It didn’t take long for Henry to dive in with his hands to mix the colors together.

Along with making green, Henry made rivers of blue going through the green. He made rows of corn in fields.

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I was just thinking of doing this. I've been seeing a lot of icecube painting and I thought "I should just freeze paint, I wonder how that would turn out!" Thanks for showing us all. We are definitely doing this. Thanks for the post!

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